Bonnie Bassler: How bacteria ‘talk’

July 30, 2012

Bonnie Bassler discovered that bacteria “talk” to each other, using a chemical language that lets them coordinate defense and mount attacks. The find has stunning implications for medicine, industry — and our understanding of ourselves.

Bonnie Bassler studies how bacteria can communicate with one another, through chemical signals, to act as a unit. Her work could pave the way for new, more potent medicine.

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These new sciences are great, but it seems like a race to see whether they’re going to be cancelled, or at least delayed (perhaps delaying the singularity beyond our lifetime) by climate change, peak oil or infrastructure collapse due to general government corruption. How much modern science can you practice around a campfire? Should we be applying more of our skills elsewhere?

Bacteria comprise some 99 percent of the mass of all living lifeforms on the planet. They reach from some 5 miles deep in the ground, up to the highest parts of the atmosphere. Talking/communiting bacteria are connected much like is all vegetation like trees. They talk by emitting odor chemicals in the air, and between roots in the soil. In fine, electrons communitate between electrons by torsion field forces that travel millions of times the speed of light which is the force that holds the universe together. Beside organic cellelar life, NASA has discovered inorganic electron cell life that exists in the gasious nublas that make up most of the universe matter. NASA discovered it in the outer atmosphere and concluded it was everywhere. In the lab they could create it, and and found that it grew, multiplied, and with the addition of protons in the center ,it actually evolved.